Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fall Dean Pound was appointed by President Coolidge to sit on the Anglo-American Board of Arbitration. He was highly instrumental in bringing about peaceful settlements of the many vexatious questions and disputes which were brought before the board. After serving for three months in Wishington in this capacity he returned to Cambridge to resume his duties in the Law School...
...faculty drew up a harsh law which precipitated the trouble, the text of which follows in part: "Article 1 . . . And all Scholars while at their Meals shall sit in their Places and behave with Decency; and whosoever shall be rude or clamorous at such time shall be punished by one of the Tutors; not exceeding five shillings...
...that by holding the elections in the spring rather than in the fall the new Council would have more time to get into smooth working order and would be ready for business at the beginning of the next college year. In this system, the old and new Councils will sit together for a certain length of time and will give a joint dinner to which all members of the Councils will be invited, as well as the chairmen of those committees which have collaborated with the Student Council. The newly appointed Council will hold its first meeting some time...
...time facing a side of the octagon, each time sprinkled with holy water by the clergy, who invited the eight principal gods of Siam to enter his person. Rising, he walked to another throne, where he placed the crown of Siam upon his head and invited his queen to sit beside him, thus raising her to royal rank. Finally, he proceeded to the great Temple of the Emerald Buddha, renowned among travelers, and there proclaimed himself Defender of the Faith...
Books. Viscount Leverhulme was not much of a reader. He liked to look at books with pictures in them, the kind of pictures he saw in Punch or on theatrical handbills. He collected old mezzotints and caricatures, and would sit for hours with one of his scrapbooks in his lap, staring at the twisted faces and bright colors as if he were reading some racy tale. The people who bought his books were on the lookout for collections such as these; they, like Leverhulme, cared little for literature, and so it came about that first editions of Thackeray were knocked...